Introducing Commodity Histories

Welcome to the exciting world of commodities! We offer a public forum where you will encounter stories from currently happening historical research, pick up news from around the world and discover new resources, all of which will hopefully engage you to want to contribute and add to our site... more

Project Team:

Sandip Hazareesingh, Principal Investigator, Commodity Histories
Mat Paskins, Community Manager, Commodity Histories

Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change

Sandip Hazareesingh reports on this recent inter-disciplinary conference.

Cassava Spirit

Lewis Daly on the biocultural history of a staple crop in Amazonian Guyana

Sugar-Based Industrialisation

Sabine Clarke on sugar, science and development in the British Caribbean in the 1940s.

Testimonies of a Dispossessed Culture

Katerina Teaiwa on the human and ecological catastrophes of phosphate mining on Banaba Island